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A couple of weeks back I told my daughter Bonny, about LibraryThing. I wasn’t all that excited about LibraryThing at the time but Bonny took to it like a fish to water. She leaned right over my laptop and started typing, searching for her favorite Manga. She really liked the option to choose your favorite cover. Pretty soon she’d discovered other Manga fans with similar collections. As she was searching I started to talk to her about what I was doing in the UBASPOETNIK course. When I started talking about web 2.0, she asked, “What’s that, web 2.0?”
That’s when I realised that for a 14 year old there is no web 2.0. It’s just “the web”.

In week 8 of the SPOETNIK program, I was introduced to Google Docs. The main exercise was to create a shared document in Google Docs. I didn’t have to think long for a subject. I asked my daughter if she’s willing to do an interview using Google Docs. She said yes.

I’ll be asking the questions and she’ll be providing the answers. One of the advantages of Google Docs is immediately apparent, we can choose to work synchroniously or asynchroniously. As she is at school and I’m at work I can start the ball rolling by typing up my questions for her. She can start on her answers once she’s finished with her homework!

Interview with Bonny (tip: adjust your sound settings)

Q. I’m your Mum, so I know who you are, but can you say a few words about yourself to introduce yourself to the SPOETNIK crowd?
A. I’m bonny, 14 years old and a huge anime-fan =3. I have been blogging/designing/watching anime for a few years already; still can’t get enough of it :9. I draw manga. See some veeery old drawings at my website.

Q. What do you use it for?
(You can give as many examples as you like! You may have to do a bit of explaining (or linking) to tell us about your hobbies.)
A. I have a few websites,artistic-wings.nl <= my portfolio, anime

I often use youtube to browse for new anime to watch. I may start an animeblog. Anime is the japanese style of animation. I’ve been watching an enormous amount of anime in the past few years. My favorites are:

A. humm.. heh. Youtube? Some of it’s illegal but good. You could have a look at www.anime-eden.com . There’s lots of downloads and stuff.

Q. What have you learned from using the web?
A. Uhmm.. japanese xD

Q. How do you learn Japanese on the web?

A. By watching anime with english subtitles, and I use a website (but can’t find it at the moment).

Q. Is the web useful for your schoolwork?
A. hell yeah =D.

Q. Has using the web changed the way you make friends?
A. Yes, it has. I’ve got what they call “I-friends”. I have their msn so we can chat with each other. If you want to meet up, we have to do it at a safer place like on chibicon, abunai or animecon 2008. These are conventions for anime/manga. People dress up as their favorite character and play an act or enter the cosplay contest.

Thanks Bonny, for the interview, and for helping to create my first shared Google Docs document. I’ll let you get on and watch some anime now.

The interview with Bonny is closed now. She answered the questions I’d prepared in advance and a few new ones that I popped in when I needed a little more clarification. Bonny and I were working on the document together so she could see when I typed in a new question. To bring it to her attention I typed the new questions in like this, NEW QUESTION. For Bonny it was just like chatting to one of her I-friends. We were finished in about half an hour. Next I posted the interview to this blog by using the ‘publish’ tab in Google Docs. To do this I first had to fill in the details of my blog, eg, blog name and password. It took a couple of minutes to load. Now I can do a last edit in WordPress before finishing. I’ll check the links that Bonny has included as well. Yep, a couple of the YouTube links were wrong, but Bonny has corrected them and I’ve copied them into this post.